With water treatment plants running at full capacity, Mayor Naheed Nenshi announced new mandatory restrictions on outdoor water usage on Saturday. It’s hoped that Calgary residents and businesses will comply with the order that prevents them from using tap water to do things like wash outdoor surfaces, water the lawn or clean their cars. Automatic sprinkler systems should be shut off.

The person of interest in a homicide unit investigation into the death of a 21-month old girl at a southeast day home one year ago is not talking to police on legal advice, her lawyer said on Friday. Mackenzy Woolfsmith, aged 21 months, suffered serious injuries May 2, 2012, in a private day home on Elgin Heath S.E. and later died in hospital.

A covert police operation into an organized group of car thieves at the long-stay parking lots at the Calgary International Airport ended with six teenage boys facing over 40 charges. Police say they made the arrests of the boys, aged 15 and 16, last week after identifying their suspects with help from airport security and using police bait cars to catch some of the culprits in the act.

Two men and a woman are facing numerous charges for allegedly setting up online escort dates as a ruse to rob men in Red Deer. The RCMP say they have had two robberies reported to them, including one where the victim was held for an extended period of time before escaping his captors and informing police.

A woman was killed in a “catastrophic” crash after her vehicle hit a tree early Wednesday morning, the second fatal crash in Calgary in as many days that involved a speeding vehicle. Police say that at 3:20 a.m. the car was travelling at more than the 70 km/h speed limit on 14th Street and hit the curb near Berkley Gate N.W., then hit a tree.

A man was killed in a crash early Tuesday after colliding with a street sweeper, and police say speed and alcohol may have been factors in the crash. The 29-year-old man died after his Acura MDX hit the back of the northbound street sweeper on Shaganappi Trail north of John Laurie Blvd. N.W. at 3 a.m.

A 50-year-old pharmacist was fired from his job and charged with theft and fraud after being accused of forging prescriptions and stealing narcotics from the Lethbridge pharmacy where he worked as manager. Lethbridge Regional Police launched an investigation in mid-May after an internal audit turned up discrepancies in the inventory at the Safeway pharmacy in the 2700 block of Fairway Plaza Road.

A week after authorities launched an awareness campaign about sexting, investigators have charged a 15-year-old boy over sexual and threatening text messages sent to an ex-girlfriend. The boy has been charged with making child pornography and criminal harassment after allegedly using a parent’s iPod to send the written messages.

A motorcycle driver that was involved in a hit-and-run over the weekend has died in hospital. On May 26 Robert Enstrom, 32, of Calgary, was driving a motorcycle with a passenger onboard that collided with a cube van at the intersection of Tache Ave. and Centre St. North.

Residents were forced out of nine homes by an overnight fire in southwest Calgary. The fire department said they were called at midnight by a resident in a house that caught fire in the 3700-block of 40 Ave S.W.

A fire that destroyed an Evanston home could have been a lot worse, fire department officials said Friday after crediting a new building code requirement for stopping the spread of an early morning fire on the northern edge of the city. New provincial building codes brought into effect in 2006 require new homes to have an approved non-combustible product layered between the wooden structure and the siding.

Nicholas Rasberry worked as a mechanical engineer, tended bar at his uncle’s nightclub and moved into a two-storey home in southeast Calgary with his wife and their pets. There was nothing concerning about him to those who knew him — until he was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a man who lived on the same street.

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